Shenanigans Crossing Borders

One of the joys of travelling throughout the world, and dragging your 4 legged friends with you, is not just getting paperwork done back home, but also getting them a pet passport in the EU.

Honestly, the USDA approved vet has to approve your pet, get the paperwork done, and returned to you before you leave. And no more than 10 days before you leave, bu no less than 10 days before. you. leave…

Well, getting out of the USA with the dogs was ok, and now in Germany we want to travel around Europe, the UK, and other parts of the world, the dogs need passports as well.

Honestly, Europe does a pretty decent job about making sure animals are relatively well cared for.

And now the dogs will get passports (before JP has one)! Their passports come with a lot of benefits, like ease of transportation across all of Europe, several north African countries, and even some middle eastern locales. 

JP only remembered that it’s really important to get this done, like, before we leave Kitzingen.

Oops

The only vet in town is a 4KM walk, and JP managed to get an appointment for both pooches, so they were seen, given new rabies shots (even though they just got them), and the vet gave JP great advice about deworming the dogs before we go to the UK.

If we hadn’t mentioned it before, one of the benefits of not having a car is all the walking we get to do. And some of the painted garages JP takes photos of!

And we found a car!

Well, we didn’t just find it.

JP’s been doing a lot of research in his spare, spare, spare time, and found a few vehicles. One, our inspector drove to, reviewed it and gave it high marks.

The good news is we can make a deposit, and if all goes well with the official inspections, we could pick it up next wekk.

The bad news is it is a bunch of money to move around, so fingers crossed things happen quickly.

We had not planned to stay in Germany this long. Don’t get us wrong, the places we’ve seen, explored, and eaten in, are all amazing,

But we’re done with winter.

So, now to wait and finish up getting paperwork done

We had a relatively peaceful shabbat, played some Settler’s of Catan, other board games, walked, took another visit back to Chabad of Nuremberg, and a chill day.

By Sunday, JP thinks Elyce was at a stressed out point, so he marched all the jawas out of the house, and got them all the way down to the river (actually, Vered even put her hand into the river), and across the river they played in the playground, burning off a lot of steam!

En route, we found Kitzingen’s water level marker.

I’m not sure what happened, but the vet didn’t warn us about the impact the shots may (but didn’t) have on Inqueue’s libido.

Darth, distracted by a new chew toy, is getting mounted by Inqueue?

Monday was a bountiful snowday!

All the females took a sloshingly lovely walk over to the grocery while JP meandered his way to back to the car rental. En route he found a bunch of dressed up snow folk, some with sandals, others doing shopping, and some even ready to jump off a bridge. 

Turns out, Kitzingen also has a piano manufacturer in town. But they don’t really have a showroom, don’t let folks just come play their pianos, and seem to be closed for the winter 🙁

Finally, JP got the car, came to the store and picked up the ladies, and home before school and work!